A global community of women and men interested in exploring how change begins: with innovative thinkers who catalyze ideas toward action. This year's TEDxLausanneWomen is themed "It's About Time." We will be featuring changemakers and innovators from around the world to share their ideas with you here in Lausanne. On October 27th 2016 doors open at 18h00 at the Opéra de Lausanne. Join us as we celebrate the second edition of TEDxLausanneWomen.
Confirmed Speakers :
Clarissa Ward (CNN, multi-award winning senior international correspondent)
Clarissa Ward, CNN : http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/03/11/clarissa-ward-undercover-in-syria-orig.cnn
Clarissa Ward is a multi-award winning senior international correspondent. For more than a decade Ward has reported from front lines across the world from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen to Georgia -- during the Russian incursion in 2008 -- and Ukraine. She has won multiple awards for her reporting including a George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, four Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award for distinguished journalism, as well as honors from the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association. This year she distinguished herself with her in-depth, high-risk reporting from Syria. Today her experience brings her to stress out the importance of having compassion and empathy for victims of war a world away.
Amina, Fléche Love (Singer, Artist formally known as Kadebostany)
Amina from Kadebostany : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQaBcNI_AoM
Amina is a singer, songwriter, performer and activist. The world recognizes her as the previous singer of the song castle in the snow from her previous band kadebostany. After experiencing injustice and series of discrediting events, she decided to leave the band to start her solo career as Flèche Love. In order to support artists like her, together with her sister, Soraya, she created a new platform of experimentation called Swood, a community that allow women to speak up when their environment doesn't. The aim of Swood is to question status quo and make hidden dynamics, visible.
We are the XX (Film-makers, seen on Huffington Post, Refinery 29 docu series)
We are the XX : https://vimeo.com/141848403
Kassidy Brown and Allison Rapson are two women with impressive and extensive backgrounds in communications and a shared passion for amplifying the female voice. Together they are creating content that exposes the world we live in - a world that is, in fact, 50% female and unapologetically so. Through their feminist media company, We are the XX, Brown and Rapson are capturing the powerful truth of how women live and socialize. By activating their global network of emboldened women from around the world, Brown and Rapson have created a brand that sits at the forefront of the future; always leading their audience to what will happen next.
Fabienne Le Tadic (SICPA, Executive President, Product and Brand Protection)
Fabienne Le Tadic , Executive President at SICPA has more than 20 years of experience in international business management position. Her track record in leading complex change management projects in very different companies and coutries such as Auchan, Nestlé, Constellium (ex-Alcan) . Passionate by leadership and people management her area of interest and practice is to set up the conditions to achieving success and building strong organizations in particularly heavy in technology environments.
Program
- 17:30 – 18:30 Registration
- 18:30 – 18:35 Welcome & introduction
- 18:35 – 19:35 Live speakers
- 19:35 – 20:15 Break - networking with drinks & nibbles
- 20:15 – 21:15 Live streaming of TEDWomen session 2 "Surface" from California
- 21:15 – 21:20 Closing